KARACHI: Sept 3: The fate of the new Preedy Street Project is hanging in balance as the city government, has failed to complete the project for last two years due to reasons best known to the incumbent city administration.

The project was executed with the objective of providing the citizens with an easy and short access to the central business area, Saddar.

Sources in the city government said the former city government had completed 70 per cent of the construction of New Preedy Street from Saddar Dawakhana to Lines Area and from Mazar-i-Quaid to Lines Areas.

But 30 per cent construction work of the project could not be carried out as about 2,000 houses are coming in the way of street project, the sources added.

The sources informed that the project was initially conceived 10 years ago and the defunct KDA had allotted land at Bagh-i-Korangi for resettlement of the affectees of the project.

Later, the authorities concerned did not take action for resettlement the people.

The Quaid-i-Azam Mazar Management Board (QMMB) had given land of peripheral area of mausoleum to the city government for the carrying out the project. The city government had constructed road on this site two years ago.

The incumbent city administration was suggested by the QMMB to construct multi-storey apartments on the vacant plots, owned by the city government in the Lines Areas, for the affectees of the project.—Online